Person with legal responsibility

Person in charge of EU relations

Firstname, Surname:

Mr
Alessandro Tschirkov

Position:

Head of EU Brussels Office

Goals / remit

Goals / remit of the organisation:

Imperial Tobacco is a leading international tobacco company with a balanced market footprint and a unique portfolio of brands and products across all tobacco categories.Our comprehensive and versatile portfolio of brands and products gives us strong representation in all tobacco products and across all price segments.

We have international strength in cigarette, we are the world leaders in fine cut tobacco, papers and cigars, and we have a growing snus business.

The organisation's fields of interests are:

European

global

Activities

Main EU initiatives, policies and legislative files currently followed by your organisation:

We have been closely following tobacco product regulatory and taxation related issues undertaken by key EU institutions.

Number of persons involved in the activities described in the box above

Financial data

Estimate of the annual costs related to activities covered by the register:

350,000
€ - 400,000
€

Most recent financial information about funding received from the EU institutions:

Procurement:

0 €

Grants:

0 €

Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:

Figures for FY 2014 have been updated to include:- an estimate of the costs associated with our Brussels representation office and Brussels based employees in proportion to their activities;- an estimate of the costs related to interest representation by non-Brussels based employees, in proportion to their activities.

Code of conduct

By its registration the organisation has signed the Transparency Register Code of Conduct.

The organisation has also declared to be bound to the following other Code:
Imperial Tobacco Group Code of Conduct for employees and the Society for European Affairs Professionals Code of Conduct